The New PCC Prez, Sarat Patnaik, Takes A Piggy-back Ride To Start His New Inning
By D N Singh
The Congress party in India has not been in a good state since last almost a decade. The case of its Odisha unit, in particular, is equally appalling given its condition which has been on the gradual decline since over two decades.
What is significantly missing in the state unit is the unity factor which has been seriously impaired by a chronic factionalism. Each leader drives with his own beacon floundering in the obvious disquiets.
Perhaps, it requires no repeat as what has happened during last one month. Which is already history.
Sarat Piggy-back Rides
After a not so open deliberation, the high command has placed the crown of the Pradesh Congress Committee on Sarat Patnaik, who hails from the western parts of Odisha. Although Patnaik is not a novice in the game but the task’s enormity really requires a rare combo of charisma that no leader in the state possess.
From the beginning Sarat Patnaik seemed to have faltered. He has not been able to make any new narrative in his fresh interaction with the media.
He has parroted the same old tale of BJD-BJP “tacit” understanding and there on the repeats.
He appeared to have lost his form so much that, he has to piggy-back ride on the versions of the seer of Puri, who, reportedly, has fired a few salvoes at the above duo on the shadow-boxing over the ‘Parikrama Project’ in Puri.
Firstly, does the seer have any role to make any sweeping remarks on the political understanding between two parties, as quoted by Sarat Patnaik.
This kind of allegations from the Congress party in Odisha has been played and replayed for long and the party workers are not going to derive any synergy from such repeats.
Rather, Sarat Patnaik should have come out with anything more motivating narrative than recycling the stuff from the old bins. He has instead chosen to live in the primitive offensives.
He should rather take sometime and come out with any new palliative and illuminate the stifling smog that the Odisha Congress is in for years.
